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EINTHOVEN, Willem (1860 – 1927)

EINTHOVEN, Willem (1860 – 1927)

1860 – 1927

5 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1901 CE

#840

Un nouveau galvanomètre.

Einthoven directed much of his research to the development and perfection of recording instruments. His most famous work was in connexion with his string galvanometer, a perfection of the instrument invented by J. S. …

1902 CE

#842

Galvanometrische registratie van het menschelijk electrocardiogram IN: Herinneringsbundel Prof. S.S. Rosenstein, pp.101-106.

First description of Einthoven's string galvanometer that recorded electrical changes occurring in the human heart. Includes the first illustration of an EKG (ECG) recording. Modern electrocardiography became a realit…

1906 CE

#11589

Het telecardiogram.

This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.

1907 CE

#846

Die Registrierung der menschlichen Herztone mittels des Saitengalvanometers

Phonocardiography.

1977 CE

#12338

Selected papers on electrocardiography of Willem Einthoven with bibliography, biographical notes and comments by H. A. Snellen.